By on August 15, 2011

Tuesday, August 16th will be our monthly “Flex Your Rights Night.” The central purpose of Flex Your Rights Nights are to provoke discussion and focus on the legal issues surrounding individual civil rights and how to protect them as it relates to encounters with law enforcement, in the context of technology, in everyday society, or in the abstract.

For this month’s Flex Your Rights Night, we will be starting at 7PM and discussing the issues of free speech in the context of Anonymous, LulzSec, DDos attacks and hactivitism. Are DoS attacks a legitimate form of protest? Are DoS attacks antithetical to free speech?

We’ll also discuss the role of free speech in the BART cell network shutdown. Can a government agency shut down cell service to prevent a protest? Are there First Amendment issues at stake?

Join us for a sure-to-be interesting night of discussion, questions and answers, and your feedback about how we can continue on with Flex Your Rights nights in the future. We hope to see you at the Space on Tuesday, August 16th!


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